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While I was reading about avocado benefits for skin and hair, the wide range of avocado benefits surprised me! It included nearly every part of your body and has many benefits to your beauty, too. So today, I want to share with you what I learned about avocado’s benefits for skin and hair.
Avocado is a fruit. Yes, you read it right, fruit! I thought that it was a vegetable until I started reading about it. Skin care products available in the market use it primarily in products for dry skin. It is also used for other skin types as well.
Whole avocado fruit contains 10 grams of fiber.
Which makes avocado perfect for healthy skin. Being rich in vitamin E makes it a good source of antioxidants which is why it helps protect the skin from wrinkles and damage caused by the sun, smoke, and pollution.
Monosaturated fats are heart-healthy. A study published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition showed that 0.5 to 1.5 avocado per day is the most effective way in lowering cholesterol without decreasing HDL (healthy) cholesterol. These unsaturated oils in avocado are in the second position after olive oil. Scientists believe that these healthy fats help to maintain the water level in your skin and supply the skin with the fats that keep the bricks and mortar of the skin healthy. This translates into less itchy, healthy-looking, glowing skin.
That is why, ladies, you will not gain much weight when adding avocados to your diet!
Omega-3 is good for your joints, skin, vision, brain, and heart helps lower bad cholesterol levels, and even boosts fertility. Omega-3 is a well-known anti-ager and an anti-inflammatory. Adding avocado to your diet helps control acne.
Avocados act as humectants; that is, they draw water into the skin and plump it up, giving it a more youthful quality, and minimizing the appearance of fine lines.
Your hair needs proteins and healthy fat to keep it healthy and shiny and avocados are one of the good sources of healthy fats,omega-3, and biotins (vitamin B).
As you can see, avocados are rich in many natural beauty factors. And this makes adding it to your diet necessary to get the advantage of all those avocado benefits. In my next post, I will share some of the most delicious avocado recipes I have found online. Always remember that your skin and body need a healthy diet in addition to skincare products.
References:
http://www.sharecare.com/question/health-benefits-eating-avocados
http://www.doctoroz.com/search?q1=avocado&cat=question&sort=
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I recently discovered the health benefits of eating avocados and have been using them in my salads. This is the second post I read today regarding their benefits when used as an ingredient for a facial - thanks for sharing
Hi Antionette,
Nice to see you here again :)
Avocados have great benefits,and are widely used in many recipes around the world.
I also use them in my recipes and my family just love them !
If you are interested in learning new avocado beautifying recipes, you may read my other post here :
I love using avocado for my hair and a masked for my skin,. It leaves both SOOOO soft. I also love eating them as well. I will start using it on the rest of my body.